south pacific

We left Fofoa today. We spent a last evening eating together on the deck, looking out to sea, hearing the cicadas and the lapping waves, watching the bats swoop and the smiles of our dear friends faces in candle light. We have grown older together and have shared a precious piece of life …read more…

Before coming to Tonga I didn’t really know what a ‘yachtie’ was; a strange breed of person I’d not discovered before, travelling the world aboard their yacht. Tonga – remotely and beautifully situated in the middle of the South Pacific – attracts so many yachties to its waters and in meeting …read more…

The legendary sea captain Captain Cook first visited Tonga in 1773. When he returned in 1777 he stayed for over 2 months, in what he named the ‘friendly isles’. He found fertile islands of impressive plantations living under a benevolent system of monarchy and chiefdoms. In Cook’s day the women were “obliging” and …read more…

Last year, before leaving on our travels, I was commissioned by Coast magazine to do an article on a weekend learning to free-dive. This was a wonderful opportunity being something we really wanted to do whilst surrounded by the South Pacific Ocean. The article is due to come out in January 2015, and I have copied it …read more…

We speed over the glassy flat water in the blue boat, 2 families on a day out looking for adventure. It’s a perfect day, enticing clear waters glitter with star fish. Kids chatter with excitement as we set of, then, like all of us, are lulled to a peaceful quiet, hypnotised by the …read more…